Using platforms such as YouTube and Twitch, some developers have recently begun the practice of live-streaming their work, broadcasting and recording their real-time work contributing to open source software projects [1]}.
Researchers have found that these sessions are not rehearsed and illustrate developers' moment-to-moment work contributing to real software projects using their preferred development environment [2]} (Figure REF ). Moreover, as they explain their work to watchers, the sessions document both developers' actions and a running commentary, similar to think-aloud, describing why they are working as they do. Observational studies in software engineering have traditionally been limited by the difficulty of gaining access to software developers at work on real projects and the impossibility of sharing datasets due to confidentiality. Much as widespread access by researchers to the repositories of open source projects or questions and answer on Stack Overflow has led to the proliferation of empirical software engineering [3]}, [4]}, [5]}, [6]}, [7]}, we believe these sessions offer a similar opportunity, complimenting these datasets by offering the ability to answer new questions where direct observation is required. To enable this opportunity, we have constructed an open source platform for researchers working with live-streamed programming videos, which we describe in Section .
